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The word mythology is derived from the Greek words mythos, which means story, and logos, which means speech. Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Some of the oldest narratives in world history come from Babylon mythology.

Sound interesting? The historians thinks so too! Listen to The Dynastic Tablets and Chronicles of the Babylonians and learn about ancient history.

Euphrates to the land of the Hittites and the Upper Sea toward the west.

King Menuas of Urartu was a great warrior and builder. Urartu centred on the district of Lake Van in Anatolia, but also extended over the Transcaucasian regions of modern Russia and into northwestern Iran in the ninth-sixth centuries BCE. This inscription deals with cities and territories conquered by Menuas.

These tablets belonged to the library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh, but the colophon says that they had been copied from older texts which came from the library of Cutha in Babylonia. This is Sayce’s second and improved translation of the inscription.

The oldest Hebrew inscription yet discovered (in 1880) is the one engraved on the wall of the subterranean channel which carries the water of the Virgin's Spring at Jerusalem into the Pool of Siloam. The inscription’s alphabet is the ancient version used by the prophets before the Exile.

Tiglath-Pileser I was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian period (1114-1076 BC). He expanded Assyrian rule into Anatolia and Syria, and to the shores of the Mediterranean. From this inscription, it is clear that cultivated a fear of himself in his subjects and in his enemies alike.

A discussion of the inscriptions found at the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Shirpurla. Besides Sumerian, there are also Semitic, Kassite, and Elamite inscriptions at this important archaeological site.

The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia (1903) consists of Egyptian religion in part one, including discussions of the sun god, the ennead, Osiris, and the journey of the soul. Part two deals with animism and the beliefs of Sumeria, Babylonia, and Assyria. The book comprises the Gifford Lectures on the Ancient Egyptian and Babylonian Conception of the Divine.